David@Work blog shows how to fill in the area between two crossing lines in an Excel chart. This post was also published as a guest-post on PTS blog. Let’s try to replicate this graph in ggplot2. First, load ggplot2 and generate the data frame to be used in ... [Read more...]

The relationship between two variables can be visually represented using a scatter plot and will provide some insight into the correlation between the variables and possible models to describe the relationship. There are different ways to produce scatter plots in R making use of either the base graphics system, the ... [Read more...]

oday Romain Francois posted an interesting topic in the R-help list, and you can read his blog post for more details: celebrating R commit #50000. 50000 is certainly not a small number; we do owe R core members a big “thank you” for their great efforts in this fantastic statistical language in ... [Read more...]

Strict quality control procedures are extremely important for any genome-wide association study.  One of the first steps you should take when running QC on your GWAS is to look for related samples in your dataset.  This does two things for you.  First, you can get an idea of how many ... [Read more...]

On the ggplot2 mailing-list the following question was asked: How to create a back-to-back bar chart with ggplot2? For anyone who don’t know what I am talking about, have a look on a recent paper from the EU. I’d like to create plots like the graph... [Read more...]

One of the nicer things about many statistics packages is the extremely granular control you get over your graphical output.  But I lack the patience to set dozens of command line flags in R, and I'd rather not power the computer by pumping the mouse trying to set all the ... [Read more...]

United Nations report World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision (highlights available here) provides data about the historical and forecasted population of the country. In exploring the future and past population trends it is relatively easy to subset the dataset by your selected variable. __ file population names(population) [Read more...]

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Over the past weeks I have tried to replicate the figures in Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R using Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2. With the exception of a few graph types (e.g. ggplot2 doesn’t support 3d-graphs, and there were a few other cases), it was possible to create ... [Read more...]

This is the 13th post in a series attempting to recreate the figures in Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (R code available here) with ggplot2. Previous parts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12. Chapter 14 [...] [Read more...]

This is the 12th post in a series attempting to recreate the figures in Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (R code available here) with ggplot2. Previous parts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11. Chapter 13 – Advanced [...] [Read more...]

This is the 11th post in a series attempting to recreate the figures in Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (R code available here) with ggplot2. Previous parts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10. Chapter 11 – Manipulating the “trellis” [...] [Read more...]

As far as I know there are 3 different systems for producing figures in R: (1) base graphics, included with R, (2) the lattice package, and (3) ggplot2, one of the newer plotting systems which is, according to the creator Hadley Wickham, "based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good ... [Read more...]

OK, so, I know I already raved about one Hadley Wickham project and how it has changed my life last week. But what can I say, the man is a genius. And if you are using R (and let’s face it, you should be) and you want simple sexy ... [Read more...]

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